Monday, June 22, 2009

sweet sleep, some favorite words

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. Victor Hugo

These is only one thing that people like that is good for them: a good night's sleep. Edgar Watson Howe

A good laugh and a long sleep are the doctor's best cures. Irish Proverb

Life is too short to sleep on low thread count sheets. Leah Stussy

A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow. Charlotte Brontë

It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it. John Steinbeck

I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does. Jorge Luis Borges

For the happiest life, rigorously plan your days, leave your nights open to chance. Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966

I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know? Ernest Hemingway

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